Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Class Consciousness and Education in Sweden

CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS AND EDUCATION IN SWEDEN: A MARXIST ANALYSIS OF
REVOLUTION IN A SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

By Alpesh Maisuria

Senior Lecturer
at the University of East London, Cass School of Education & Communities,
United Kingdom

Routledge (December 2017)

OUTLINE:

Emerging from a Marxist perspective, this
book focuses on the importance of social class and the role of education
broadly in relation to the possibility of revolutionary change in Sweden and
beyond. Critically tracing the celebrated so-called ‘Swedish model’ from its
inception to its current neoliberalisation, Maisuria explores the contours of
class as part of social democratic history, culture and education, especially
against the alternatives of communism and fascism. Presenting empirical research
on class consciousness within a higher education context, Maisuria analyses
student testimonies on their perceptions of social democracy and ‘Swedishness’
with ethno-racial dynamics, which is subjected to a Gramscian and Critical
Realist derived explanatory critique for social transformation

About Me

I am a Visiting Fellow in the College of Social Science at the University of Lincoln. I was previously a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Education at Anglia Ruskin University (2014-15). Prior to that, I was previously a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Northampton. My interests are in Marxist educational theory, the future of the human and social time. The Rikowski family web site, The Flow of Ideas can be found at: http://www.flowideas.co.uk,
My Wordpress blog, 'All that is Solid for Glenn Rikowski' is at: http://rikowski.wordpress.com,
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@ ResearchGate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Glenn_Rikowski